29 Jul
2003
29 Jul
'03
12:27 p.m.
Is there any truth to this anyway? Am I too idealistic to believe that IP numbers will be equally alotted to APNIC, ARIN and RIPE and that this has been the case all along?
I mean, there are certain entities in the US with /8:s and these might have a specific advantage, but is this really a country/region thing when it comes to open up previously RESERVED space?
At least with current practise it´s not. RIRs get /8´s from IANA at the pace they need them. When the last /8 goes out, then we´ll be quite close to end of allocatable ipv4 space. Expect that to happen early next decade. Pete